Subject: Re: bug#40269: Emacs should recognize "file:" when opening files

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 20:14:28 +0300

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:09:27 +0800
> 
> I saying that if chrome, firefox, can deal with emacs' /nurds/burg
> then it is only fair that emacs should be able to deal with
> chrome, firefox's file:///nurds/burg .

Emacs _can_ deal with file://, you just need to invoke "M-x eww"
instead of "M-x find-file".

Why are you insisting on using the latter?